WEBVTT - Starring Trever O’Brien as Andrew Carson in “Motocrossed” 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.200 Thank you everybody for joining us on this park Hopper 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.239 episode of Magical Rewind and we are very excited to 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.080 speak with one of what I would call the two 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.400 dudes from the movie we just watched and well loved. Frankly, 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.760 so if I can't even. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.240 Wait any longer, I can't wait any longer. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.559 This is the man himself, the man, well, the man 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.760 who unfortunately in the first ninety seconds of the movie 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.320 fell off his motorcycle twice and ended up really hurting 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.239 his leg the second time, so his sister had to 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:46.120 jump in for him. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.440 But can you please help us? Welcome Trevor O'Brien. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.040 Hey you guys doing. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.360 I love it and dressed for the part. Oh my god, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:00:59.880 I'm so happy right now. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.240 Okay, I had to pull out this old relic. I't 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.600 believe I still had it, but I mean, this is 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.800 the original. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:09.800 It's there, is the real. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:15.320 Oh my god, SETS surprised it still fit. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:16.759 I was just about to say. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.959 The idea that I could pull something out from like 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.240 twenty years ago and it. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.640 Still fits is amazing. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.840 The shirt, I think was fine. I don't think I 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.520 was gonna fit into the Andy pants I got it 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:35.120 Fox Andy pants, so I opted not to put those on, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.880 but I had I had to leadly square the shirt 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:37.279 I couldn't. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.640 Yes, I love it. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.160 You just reade my year right there, right so happy 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.760 right now. I have to start by saying, So, I 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.240 have a stepdaughter who, as I've done in her life 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.639 since she was you know, eleven or twelve. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.040 But when she found out that I was interviewing you, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.639 she was so happy. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.600 You and your co star were like her biggest crushes 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.440 growing up, and she was like, please tell them how 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.560 much I love them, how much they just I was 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.120 obsessed with their movie. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.120 Give my love back to them. I always love, you know, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.680 hearing from fans, and you know, it was such an 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.399 honor and fun part to play and be a part 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.399 of this you know, revolutionary film for back in the day, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.000 you know. And you know Riley was great, you know, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.960 so I mean, I I think he got way more 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.320 you know, fan love than I did, maybe maybe just 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.600 a little bit. He's really pretty. I even I'm at 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.760 a hard time you know, on set. So but but 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.799 you know, it was such a great cast. I mean, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.760 you know a lot of Austin Scott, Tara, you know, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.720 Timothy Carhart and everyone was just so so amazing and 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.919 to get to be a part of that at my age, 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.840 you know, I was in high school. I was sixteen, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.640 and you know Jerrymy McGrath, Travis Pastrana. Yeah, all those 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.079 guys in the film were like my idols at the time, 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.079 and so it was such a cool thing to get 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:57.800 to be a part of it. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.880 You know, Well, that's a perfect place to start. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.520 And so because I want to get to fort how 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.400 you grew up if you were a motocross fan. But 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.640 let's start with when's the first time you heard about 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.160 the film? Was this just a regular audition that came 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.160 on your desk or how did you hear about it? 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.720 Yeah? So, I mean it was just a you know, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.880 just a normal audition, and it was very hush hush, 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.920 you know when when I went to audition, they didn't 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.920 give you very much of any information. In fact, I 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.640 think what we read wasn't even actually in the script. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.000 Oh wow, they they did. It was originally called twelve Flap, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.240 which is you know, based on because it's based off 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.080 Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Yeah, they let us know that it 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.200 was called twelve Flap, and it was kind of you know, actually, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.760 I don't even know if they told that that came 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.320 in later, but originally it was Originally it was it 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.240 was named that. And so when I asked about the film, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:46.840 because I was trying to learn about the character, it 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.760 was like, you know, who is he? What's you know? 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.880 Can you tell me anything about the stories that will 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.000 help me with, you know, to prepare for this audition. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.520 And the only thing that they told me was like, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.880 you know, you're the star. You're this motocross. He wants, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.280 you know, to compete. And that was pretty much all 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.680 I knew. So I went in auditioned, I loved it, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.920 you know, got a callback to go you know, through 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.080 the process. I didn't get the script for the film 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.679 until the night before filming, so I never know, I knew, 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.920 I knew nothing about it. And that's why I say 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.119 the truth is I didn't even know it was based 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.240 off Shakespeare's telfth Night. Otherwise I would have had some 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.920 knowledge about who my character was and what was going 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.440 to happen. Yeah, I'm reading it for the first time, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.120 having no clue that this has anything to do with 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.600 Shakespeare's twelth Night, and I'm reading, and I'm reading, and 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.120 then all of a sudden ten pages into it, I 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.600 break my leg and I'm like, where. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:39.880 Did I go? 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.560 I'm out of the film. And as the sixteen year 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.120 old who like loves motocross and getting to race and 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.000 ride and do stuff like that, I was like, wait 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:58.000 what the film writing with Jeremy McGrath and Travis Oh, 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.840 there was some disappointment, but. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.280 That's fair, that's all, you know, you know, And now. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.520 As I'm older, like I said again, it was kind 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.599 of a revolutionary film because there wasn't a lot of 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.800 film about you know, women and you know, entering the 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.880 man's world, and you know, and it's so funny because 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.599 if you look at it back now and you just go, wow, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.920 that's so crazy that it was even that was even 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.440 a thing. Yeah, and now it's to get to be 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.440 kind of a part of that thing where all of 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.279 a sudden we're coming out with that and empowering you 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.880 know women, and not that they needed our help with 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.680 that at all whatsoever, but that we were aware of it, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.479 you know what I mean, And that it was such 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.520 a great, you know, such a great film. It was 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.839 so much fun to be a part of and everyone 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.520 was really great, and it had a really good message 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.240 and it was just a cool story. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.600 It was a great movie. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.120 It was a great movie. It really was a phenomenal movie. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.479 It holds up. I watched it last night again, so 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.279 it's I mean, it was one of those things where 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:54.360 it just it works. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:55.240 Everything about it works. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:55.359 Well. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.400 I guess when your source material is Shakespeare, I guess 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.400 it kind of right exactly because a lot of people 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:07.560 didn't know Shakespeare. Big motocross guy he was. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.000 He was huge on the. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:13.039 Circuit was something something to be said for. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.920 Did you now did you ride before this movie at all? 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.719 So full transparency, I did not. I always loved or 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.880 had a passion for motorcycles, but my family and my 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.120 parents were like, you know, as an actor, They're like, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.599 I don't know if I want to do that. However, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.080 because of the film, I got really into it. I 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.400 bought two of the bikes, the hero bike and one 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.680 of the extra bikes. So I had two of the 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.040 motocross bikes. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.080 That's amazing. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:48.880 Sadly sold them, oh no, I newly had kids. I 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.920 got rid of them, and honestly, I don't think who 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.040 ever bought them and even really understood what they had. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.919 But but I did have them. I loved it I 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:02.240 went riding. I was terror to begin with. So I'd 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.000 go out riding and sometimes I'd wear the Andy Carson outfit, 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.760 just not thinking about it because it's what I had. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.400 And people would be like, oh my gosh, you're Andy 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.520 Carson and they want me to do all these tricks 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.840 and then they'd see me like eat it and they'd 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.480 do wrong with Damn. They'd look at my friends and 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.720 be like, what is going on right now and they 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.400 just shake your head, he's having a bad day or so. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.320 Were they were they? They were rms? Weren't they? Were 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:27.280 they r M one twenty five? 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.160 Yeah, okay, Suzuki won twenty five. They had a lot 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.200 of power. I mean they were amazing. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.840 But oh there were great bikes. I rode. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.520 I rode growing up, so full disclosure, I rode growing up. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.800 My friends and I were the little motorcycle gang, but 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.560 we were all awful, so it wasn't. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.800 Like we were that gang of guys. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.880 Without being cool or skilled or talented in any way, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:45.800 shape or form. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.400 Yeah. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.440 I always said we were the kids from Karate Kid 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:49.640 without the money or the talent. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.600 Yeah, So it definitely it definitely got me into it. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.440 After that, I bought a Dukate. I was writing in 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.200 the Dukati for a while. Oh, we had the monster 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.960 in nine nine. It was the black Matte, Black Name 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.480 Good bike. So it was really sweet and it'll get 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.480 rid of that. And now I have a KLR six hundred. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.160 You're geez. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.640 This movie got you into motorcycles. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:16.440 Absolutely, and I was hooked ever since. I only only 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.040 regret I wish I had was that I got to 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.720 start sooner, you know, so that way I could have 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.800 done more of the tricks in the film myself. I 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.840 got to ride, like very minimally, but you know, I 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.920 have to hand it out to like David Barrett, who 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.600 was our stunt coordinator, you know, Clay Coolan, Jack Carpenter, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.720 Regis Harenting, who I think was actually my stunt double. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.920 And I mean, they just did amazing jobs and made 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.200 me look so good. And I tried to for the fans, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.480 keep keep the Andy Carson in there as much as 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.520 I could, but I had to be honest with people. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.439 I was like, look, I like riding, but these are 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.440 the real stars. These are the guys, you know, who 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:54.080 make me look good. And without them, there's no way. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.040 Did any of the actors get a chance. I mean, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:01.720 because it's different than rollerblading or surfing. Yeah, it's I 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.880 mean that you can get really hurt very easily. So 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.360 did any of the actors that could ride even get 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:09.480 a chance to really ride in. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.520 The film, like I said, very minimally kind of in 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.000 the beginning, And then I think they realized the liability 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.040 with all that and how yeah you would have been 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.440 to get hurt. So they really just kind of put 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.720 you know, that to an end very quickly. In the beginning. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.040 We did get to practice, We did ride a little 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.679 bit around, and like I said, I was hooked the 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.960 moment that I could. They almost had to like keep 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.000 me off the motorcycles. You got to be there when 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.680 Jerry m McGrath Travis Pastrana were doing their thing. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.720 Oh my gosh. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.080 It was just it was a dream con true, you know. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.320 I mean, it's still so fun. In fact, what's funny 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.680 is I still I didn't get recognized for that film 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.600 more than any other film that I've done. Sure, just 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:54.400 keep going, Wait a minute, I know you So it's 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:55.640 a lot of fun. It's really cool. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.720 Now, did you know anybody on the cast before you 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.480 shot or was this was they're throwing you all together, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.000 and hey, this is the first time you met everybody? 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.760 Yeah, no, we met like literally on on set. That 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.000 was like that, like I said, the first time, you know, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.160 because it was so hush hush. I didn't know anything, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.840 I didn't have the script, I didn't meet anybody, so 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.120 everything kind of got to be formed on set the 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.760 first day, relationships and you know, chemistry and kind of 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.040 just you know, running through things, you know. But definitely 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.680 it was a quick and easy bond, you know. So 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.880 everyone was really cool, and you know, even like Scott 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.440 Terror who was like my little brother, he'd be like 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:38.880 basically became my little brother, you know. Fun. The only 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.120 thing I remember kind of feeling bad at that was 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.360 a lot of Austin had the most gorgeous long hair 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.640 and she had to end up cutting it. So what 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.880 she has in the film is actually a wig, and 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.960 with her long hair, that's that's not her real hair. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.080 Her real hair in real life was even more beautiful 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.280 than the wig that she wore. The short hair that 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.560 she had in the film was actually they cut it 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.960 all off. So that was that was rough. I remember 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:08.920 her being very sad that day, and I remember just 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.719 like oh that for. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.080 You, But that's a dramatic. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.679 Dramatic traumatic I've got to imagine cutting. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.240 Yeah, it was even nearly as long as that wig. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.760 I mean that's a big cut. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.320 And she is a beautiful woman and just you know, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.360 like I said, super powerful. So like I just had 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.319 so much respect for her playing that role, yeah, and 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:30.920 doing her thing. It was really cool. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.280 So some of the people we've interviewed over it, their 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.160 audition process was so fast, Like some of them said, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.839 you know, I found out on Friday that I was 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.920 leaving on Monday for it. Was there a long process 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.360 within the audition of actually getting to set or did 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.880 it happen? It seems like sometimes Disney just works really. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.320 I mean honestly, this was nearly twenty five years ago 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.040 something like that. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:54.880 Yeah. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.880 Yeah, so I feel like it was pretty quick. I 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.600 feel like I only had like two auditions I remember, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.160 and and I think within a couple of weeks we're filming. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.920 And I was in high school, so it was really 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.679 kind of you know, I was in a public high 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:12.120 school that went to Newport Harbor High And it's funny 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.199 they actually wanted to kick me out because I was 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.440 going to go like that for six weeks in San 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.040 Diego thing. But I happened to also be a part 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.040 of their theater department, and so my mom advocated for me. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.440 She was my manager at the time, who was amazing, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.280 the best manager I ever had, and advocated and said, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.640 excuse me, this is a theater department that you have 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.080 him in. This is what he's designed to do. Why 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.120 would you, you know, you know, persecute him for doing 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.440 what he should be doing. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.840 I mean, in California law too, as long as there's 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.160 a teacher on set, you're not really technically considered absent 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.800 for the days. That's all made up, right. They had 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.559 no no, no like basis. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.360 It was kind of funny and it was but but 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.719 it was uh but it was really cool and when 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.240 it had fun, and you know, obviously became I had 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.880 to get my my friends to be bodyguards at the 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:12.600 high school as those up for a while, really corner 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.760 and just be like man. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.440 So that yeah, I mean, we've heard different child you know, 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.720 being a child actor, all of us here being child actors, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.679 We've heard different kind of views about what how you're 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.800 treated when you come back as a child actor. Were 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.520 you made more of the rock star because you're the 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.360 child actor, or you made more of kind of like 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.040 you were bullied because you were the child actor. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:32.520 You know. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:37.000 It was kind of a mixture. I I feel like 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:41.120 I had a fairly normal childhood in a lot of ways, 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.720 and I think I I think I was really lucky 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.240 in that in that sense, there was definitely some people 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.080 who wanted to be your friend because of and so 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.560 also in my case, my brother at the time was 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.280 pretty famous as well, because I mean he was he 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.440 did a film called The Last Action Hero and so 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.319 he was huge, and then he was in My Girl too. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.000 So I had more issues with people wanting to be 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.240 friends with me because they wanted to be friends with him. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.800 Or was he older or younger than you? 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.120 Older than me? Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I'm the youngest 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.520 of three and and so. But but yeah, I didn't 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.880 have a whole lot of trouble. It had its moments, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.120 but I mean, for the most part my senior year, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:24.920 I ended up going to OSHA, which is Orange County 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.840 High School of the Arts, and everyone there was so 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.200 amazing and so talented that it just it was like family. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.040 So it was that was the best year ever had 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.160 in terms of school and high school stuff like that, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.160 because it was just it was so easy to blend 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.960 in and everyone was so amazing and everyone respected your craft, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.560 and it was really really a cool experience. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.120 So yeah, there's nothing like finding your crowd right, finding 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.040 the people that it. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.600 Was so easy. It was so easy to be in 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.000 because everyone was doing something amazing and everyone was working hard, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.280 and everyone honored and respecting what you were up to. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.760 So it's different to being around, especially in high school, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.720 people that have found what they're passionate about doing, and 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.960 high school, you're in college people are still trying to 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.800 figure out where they're going what they want to do. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.080 So at Osha, I've heard I'm from Orange County too, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.240 so I know, like Osha is a big place where 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.960 a lot of actors or phenomenal dancers, Like there's all 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.960 these arts that people are like they're wanting to already 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.200 hone in on a career, you know, at fourteen fifteen 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.360 years old. So it's cool to find your people in 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.600 that sense and be inspired by each other. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.760 Some of them are still my best friends today, you know. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.400 Yeaow, that's how. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.320 Close we were. I could I could probably name twenty 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.120 twenty five people that I knew from high school that 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.920 I'm still in contact with today. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:42.440 That's I don't know, twenty five people Total's that's amazing. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.000 We want to leave the house every once in a while. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:46.040 Those work. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.640 It was great at staying up with them, but they're 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.200 pretty much they're better at staying up with me. But 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.280 I would still say, you know that there's type of 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.440 people that at any time, no matter how long it's been, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.160 you could show up and it was and it's like 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.200 you clicked or they'd be there for you. You know. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.280 So I've been really really lucky and really really blessed, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:02.440 you know. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.960 Now you talked about your older brother being in the business. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.240 Was this a plan for did you want to be 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.240 in the business as well, or was it just kind 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:18.280 of easier. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.479 To follow in your brother's footsteps. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.280 So it's really kind of interesting. I started. I had 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:24.760 my first agent when I was one and a half 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.160 years old, So I started like as a baby doing 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.000 you know, modeling and things like that, and then started 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.160 getting into commercials when I was six years old. I 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.720 think I got inducted into SAG with my first film 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.920 that I did with Sissy Spasic and Aiden Quinn called 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.880 a private matter about abortion in the nineteen sixties and 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.280 stuff like. It was a crazy film, crazy film. So 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.080 but I played like their son, and so, I mean 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.960 I've been a part of member of SAG since nineteen ninety, 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.840 you know, And so I didn't really choose to go 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:53.560 in it per se. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.280 Yeah, you woke up and you were already an actor. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.640 I was always in it my mom, my mom homeschool 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.480 does tell about high school and and so it made 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.520 it easy to to kind of just do that. And 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.840 you know, it was fun. I mean, we loved it. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.280 I was always kind of a ham and you know, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.199 I I have definitely was adhd. So I had a 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.160 lot of energy. So getting to kind of be out 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.040 in spots of life and be crazy and do whatever 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.720 else like it worked. It worked for me. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.520 So that's been the youngest of three. Do you have 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.200 two older brothers or do you have a brother and sister? 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:22.920 Yeah, I have an older brother and an older sister. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.159 Okay, I'm the youngest of three too, So you you 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:26.760 have to ham it up to get the attention. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:32.960 That's just the way it works. So that's so funny. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.680 But yeah, we had we had a lot of fun, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.520 and you know, it's just it's an amazing So for me, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.520 it's an amazing it's amazing lifestyle that I got to 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:41.959 grow as a kid because I got to travel all 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.200 over the place, need a ton of really amazing people, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.520 do some amazing things. I think in some ways as 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.040 an adult, in some ways it was almost like more 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.359 difficult because all of a sudden, You've had this really 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.520 amazing fame and you know, you're doing stuff, and as 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.560 you kind of get into life with kids and children 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.639 and other stuff like that, they're is like this this 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.560 still this need to want to perform to a certain 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.879 level and be up there and stuff like that. So like, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.320 there was definitely times when I struggled with some of 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.280 that stuff, you know, sure, but luckily I had really 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.040 good friends, really good family. You know, I've been a 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.080 builder for the last fifteen years, so I do a 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.399 lot of you know, I build houses, do remodels and 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.600 stuff like that. Wow, I'm rebuilding my mom's house right 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.400 now because her house burned down in January twenty three, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.960 So it's been a crazy Wait. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.560